12 SMART COOKIES DON’T CRUMBLE

CHAPTER TWELVE SMART COOKIES DON'T CRUMBLE Franny dug through a box of inventions. "I have NO IDEA what to do! I mean, my Octagonner will turn the Muffin Man into an octopus, but what if that lets him bake things four times as fast?" she wondered.

第十二章聪明的饼干不会碎弗兰妮翻出一盒发明。 “我不知道该怎么办！”我的意思是，我的八角手可以把松饼人变成章鱼，但如果这能让他烤东西的速度提高四倍呢？”

"I could just launch him to the moon in a rocket, but the kids all know the recipe now, and they'll just keep making muffins on their own-and I'm not sending all those kids to the moon with him. "I suppose I could just lock them all down there in the basement, and at least they couldn't give muffins to anybody else. But that wouldn't be fair. It's not really their fault.

“我可以用火箭把他送上月球，但现在孩子们都知道食谱了，他们会继续自己做松饼——我不会把所有的孩子都和他一起送上月球。 “我想我可以把他们都锁在地下室里，至少他们不能把松饼给别人吃了。 但这并不公平。 这并不是他们的错。

"I've always known how to fight great big monsters, but this is different." Franny sat down and looked at a painting that Igor had done of himself and smiled. "I guess he'll never paint one of me now," she said sadly.

“我一直都知道如何对付巨大的怪物，但这次不一样。” 弗兰尼坐下来，看着伊戈尔为自己画的一幅画，笑了。 “我想他再也不会画我了，”她悲伤地说。

"Wait a second," she said. "Even if I can't convince them to get rid of those muffins, I might know who can!" And in a flash, Franny was running back to the school basement.

“等一下，”她说。 “即使我不能说服他们放弃那些松饼，我可能知道谁可以！”一瞬间，弗兰妮跑回了学校的地下室。